The good news

The bad news

Now you're probably wondering why the title of this blog post contains something about password security.
We have ran a little security experiment on the website, and I don't like the results at all!

When you signed up on the website, the website automatically uses your IGN or email address and the password you used for registration to test if a login to mojang is successful, or not.
It uses the same way to login the Minecraft launcher uses, as documented here. (warning: nerd stuff)
In case you're scared now, that is actually what we wanted to achieve. The passwords are not stored, however.

DO NOT RE-USE ANY PASSWORDS!

If it isn't yet clear to you why you shouldn't re-use your minecraft any password on redstoner's website anywhere else again, here are just a few examples:

If we wanted to, we could store the passwords and claim your account

We could also assume that you probably use the same password for facebook, gmail, minecraft forums, ... and claim those accounts, too

If we would (be stupid enough to) store your passwords in plain text and someone gains access to our database,
not only we would have your passwords, but the hackers would as well!

If any of the services where you're using this password gets hacked, they can claim your account on redstoner's website, too.

You are probably re-using your password because you cannot come up with any other ones or can't remember too many passwords.
There is a solution to this problem. There are lots of programs called Password manager or Password database which store all your account details + passwords.
All you need to remember is a (really strong) master password to unlock the database.
Many of them will also allow you to generate random passwords.
I use KeePassX to handle this, and it handles it pretty well.
It runs on many systems including mobile phones and you can use dropbox or the like to access it from anywhere (dropbox can't see your passwords because they don't know the master password).

Finally, here's a chart that shows the date on the X-Axis and the number of registrations (blue) plus the number of players who re-used their minecraft login password (red).

This chart makes me sad. Really sad.
We have a total of 200 registered users, 53 of them re-used their password. That is a whopping 26.5%!
A Minecraft account costs 26.95$. I could have claimed accounts worth over 1428$ in 20 days!

Those who re-used their password got an instant notification on the website and a warning in their registration email.
I hope I was able to explain why it's a bad idea to re-use passwords. Please change your passwords wherever you use them, now!

We've added 2 new plugins onto the server, one which you will be able to use to chat with certain players, and another which more specific users will be able to use in order to play with no players annoying them, for example people like Mumbo Jumbo, or fennoman if he's livestreaming.

For chatgroups, you can use /cg to control your chatgroup. If you want to chat to your chatgroup, use :, but you can also use /cgt to toggle chatgroup messages and global server messages.
Here's some more info on /cg:
This plugin was made by our godfather, sheep! :D

For forcefield, this pic should explain:

the forcefield just keeps other players on distance. Eventually you can whitelist certain players so they can enter your forcefield, and build with you.
Forcefield is not likely to be given to you, unless you're hoarded by players, and just to clarify, I'm not hoarded, I just wanted to make a plugin :)
forcefield is my first kinda complicated plugin written in python, so please give me some feedback! :)

Most people with worldedit were limited to 10000 blocks in one go. I thought this was a bit unlucky, since the plots are 101x101 which is 10201 when squared. So I changed it to 10201. Everyone with worldedit can change their plot floor with 1 command, and without shifting their selection! :)
Thanks @willetaking for testing it out! ;)

Today me and a few otheres were a little annoyed from people asking the same questions over and over again.
I decided to write a little bot that recognizes questions answered in our FAQ, hides the message from chat and displays a notice to the sender.
Not 1 hour later it was done, it looks like this:

I hope this helps everyone to not get annoyed by noobs and to find answers quick.

Update 3

After months of hard work from sheep, and countless hours of testing by the staff, Redstoner.com is finally done!
As you can see in the menu bar, we have a News blog, Info pages Forums, and more.
The website should also work perfectly fine on Smartphones.
Definitely go check out the Info pages!

Other Changes

We have a new spawn:

Simply jump off the edges to "fall" into a World.
Inside the Piston you'll find the FAQ and a list of donators further down.

Survival world

We have decided to make the Survival world griefing allowed.

This change was made to make it really "survival", create a bit more fun, and challenge for everyone.

Plugins

We have recently worked (and are still working) on some custom plugins. Some of these are a bit older, but we think not many are aware of them, so we tell you anyway. We also have an info page about plugins with more details.

ChatGroups
> Lets you create a group chat with multiple users.

Reports
> Report problems to the staff!

SayLol
> Broadcast funny messages

Mention
> Highlights your username in chat and makes a sound

ShearSheep
> Try it :)

Website registration

The registration is fairly simple, but requires one extra step to make sure all players are really from the server and aren't bots or are impersonating other people.